Magistracy
Speciality Name:
Public Health
Faculty:
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Qualification:
- Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Medical Sciences
- Model of graduating student
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Mandatory
disciplines
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Elective
disciplines
- Professional
The goal of the educational program is to train highly qualified and competitive public health specialists who are able to:
- to formulate and solve modern scientific and practical problems, successfully carry out professional activities;
- to ensure rational management of the economy and the activities of health organizations, taking into account the specifics of health care;
- organize and conduct research to continue research in doctoral studies;
- use knowledge in the field of university pedagogy and psychology and teaching experience in high school.
Upon completion of this educational program, it is expected that undergraduates will be able to:
1. Q1 Assess the current state of public health and health care, its problems and development prospects;
2. B2 To evaluate quantitatively and qualitatively the state of health of the population, its determinants, as well as to formulate a plan for effective actions to promote health.
3. Q3 Critically assess data regarding the effectiveness of health interventions, programs, and services.
4. B4 Promote public health by influencing the socioeconomic, physical and cultural environment through health promotion methods, including health education.
5. С1Collect, generate, synthesize, evaluate, analyze, interpret data that measure health status, risks, needs of certain groups of the population.
6. C2 Systematize the main problems and discussions about the methods and strategies of conducting scientific research and the laws governing the development of science.
7. C3 Demonstrate originality and creativity in the implementation of public health activities;
8. C4 Integrate knowledge and cope with complex issues and formulate judgments based on incomplete or limited information.
9. С5 To carry out information-analytical and information-bibliographic work with the involvement of world medical information databases with a high level of evidence.
10. C6 Apply the knowledge gained in pedagogy and psychology of higher education in teaching public health disciplines.
11. C7 Communicate their findings and the knowledge and rationale (limited scope) used to formulate them to specialists and non-specialists.
12. D1 Make your own original contribution to the development of public health.
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Psychology of management
- Number of credits: 3
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Formation of knowledge about the fundamental concepts of management psychology for the practical application of the most critical aspects of management in professional interaction. Basic principles of management psychology, personality in management interactions, management of personality behavior, modern ideas, psychology of managing group phenomena, motivation, and practical reflection.
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Biostatistics and epidemiology
- Number of credits: 10
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to form among master students the ability to use modern epidemiological and statistical concepts in a specific but simple empirical setting, to make forecasts of the development of the health status of the population as a whole and its population groups taking into account social and economic conditions. The discipline studies the basic definitions of statistical theory, methods, algorithms and tools of statistical analysis. When studying the course, epidemiological and statistical documentation (analyzes, tables, figures, etc.) on the relationship between the socio-economic environment and the health of the population as a whole and population groups will be considered.
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Introduction to Public Health science
- Number of credits: 6
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to conduct scientific research in the field of public health, apply methods of applied research, analyze and process their results, and integrate the results of scientific research in public health into practice.
In the course of the discipline, the following topics will be studied: concepts of the methodology of scientific research; system of methods and forms of scientific research; main structural components of scientific research; the problem of the novelty of scientific research.
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Foreign Language (professional)
- Number of credits: 5
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose is to acquire and improve competencies by international standards of foreign language education and to communicate in an intercultural, professional, and scientific environment. A master's student must integrate new information, understand the organization of languages, interact in society, and defend his point of view.
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History and Philosophy of Science
- Number of credits: 3
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Purpose: Understanding of modern philosophy as a system of scientific knowledge, including worldview in rational-theoretical comprehension. The discipline includes aspects of the evolution and development of scientific thinking, historical moments, the contribution of scientists and scientific schools to the formation of science, and ethical and social aspects of scientific activity.
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Pedagogy of Higher Education
- Number of credits: 5
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: Purpose: To provide pedagogical theories and practical strategies for effective teaching in higher education, fostering critical thinking, and academic success. The course explores instructional methods, curriculum design, assessment techniques, and classroom management strategies preparing educators to create inclusive and stimulating learning environments.
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Politics, Economics and management in healthcare
- Number of credits: 8
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to carry out managerial analysis, carry out program planning, implement and evaluate, translate policies into public health practice, predict the impact of the introduction of new services, technologies in the healthcare sector. The discipline considers the strategy and policy in the field of healthcare, strategic planning and forecasting, the economic content of the financial and economic activities of medical organizations, the analysis of the problems of the healthcare economy, and the specifics of the legal regulation of healthcare organizations.
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Health problems of the socially vulnerable population
- Number of credits: 5
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to identify and analyze factors affecting the health of socially unprotected people, to assess the contribution of factors affecting the health of socially unprotected categories of the population, to introduce new methods and techniques aimed at protecting the health of citizens in difficult situations. The course examines the patterns of the impact of social conditions and environmental factors on the health of a socially unprotected population.
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Health promotion
- Number of credits: 5
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to form among master students the ability to identify problems in promoting health at various levels of social and political organization, from global to local, to design, implement and evaluate health promotion strategies using standard public health tools and taking into account issues of power and politics. When studying the course, modern scientifically based techniques, methods and means of teaching a healthy lifestyle of the population will be considered. Discipline studies the main preventive directions of modern medicine.
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Environmental epidemiology
- Number of credits: 6
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to develop the ability of undergraduates to plan and conduct research in the field of environmental epidemiology using epidemiological and statistical tools to assess the health of the population.
The discipline studies epidemiological methods for determining cause-and-effect relationships between morbidity and environmental factors, and a comprehensive assessment of the impact of abiotic and biotic environmental factors on the human body
Data for 2021-2024 years
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Bioethics in public health research
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to form among master students the ability to analyze modern scientific achievements guided by bioethical norms, determine the ethical aspects of specific public health measures, strategies and policies, apply the legal foundations of bioethics in professional activities and the foundations of philosophical and socio-humanitarian knowledge to form a scientific worldview, basic legal knowledge in various areas of activity. The discipline considers bioethics as a new interdisciplinary area, which reflects the key problems of theoretical foundations and practical applications of modern bioethical problems in healthcare.
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Global Health and Public Health Systems
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to interpret the concept and objectives of global health, to predict its impact on public health and the health care system of Kazakhstan.
The following topics will be studied during the course: principles and goals of global health; international approaches to public health; major health problems and risk factors in the world; global burden of disease; global health promotion programs.
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Еvidence-based medicine
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to collect, analyze, summarize and interpret medical information that allows them to make scientifically evidence-based decisions on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment of diseases and the organization of healthcare. The following topics will be studied during the course: the role and place of evidence-based medicine in modern healthcare; types and designs of research, hierarchy of scientific data by degree of evidence; evidence-based terminology and tools; formulation of clinical issues, conducting an effective search for evidence-based medical information; critical assessment of scientific publications.
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Organization and Health Management
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to apply the basic principles and models of organization and management in healthcare, to carry out effective managerial activities in the field of healthcare, to distinguish between organizations and management of public and private medical activities. The discipline considers the control and functioning of health authorities, separation of functions in the field of healthcare, PPP in healthcare, modern information technologies in healthcare, theory and management systems, QMS in healthcare.
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Basics of methodology of teaching public health
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to use innovative forms and technologies of general scientific methods of cognition, managerial and heuristic methods in the process of teaching the basics of public health, methods of generating ideas for studying psychological and pedagogical processes, solving situationally arising problems, using them in practice and in your own development. Discipline develops the personality of a student who is able to carry out pedagogical in the field of public health of higher education on the basis of acquired competencies, skills.
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Database creation and evaluation of research results
- Type of control: [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
- Description: The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability of master students to use statistics software to perform statistical analysis. The discipline studies the basic concepts of the theory and practice of developing and using databases, as well as the general characteristics of the SPSS and MS Excel application software packages for statistical processing of research data. When studying the course, principles of working with databases and the use of statistical tools in the selection of statistical procedures will be considered.
Data for 2021-2024 years
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Pedagogical
- Type of control: Защита практики
- Description: Aim оf discipline: formation of the ability to carry out educational activities in universities, to design the educational process and conduct certain types of training sessions using innovative educational technologies.
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Research
- Type of control: Защита практики
- Description: The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.
Data for 2021-2024 years
